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- Scientists Develop the World’s First Method to Comprehensively Recycle Footwear Mon, 28 Oct 13, 1:50amScientists from Loughborough University have made great strides in the effort to recycle old footwear. Their process will soon make it possible to put a sizable dent in the billions of shoes tossed into the landfill each...
- Bill Gates Awards $100,000 Prize to Caltech for Energy-Generating Solar-Powered Toilet Fri, 17 Aug 12, 12:44amBill Gates helped to invent the personal computer and now, through his philanthropic foundation, he plans to help reinvent the toilet. On Tuesday, the billionaire awarded the California Institute of Technology with a $100,000...
- New Study Finds that Pollution Turns Carnivorous Plants Into Vegetarians Wed, 13 Jun 12, 1:00amDr. Jonathan Millet from Loughborough University has revealed that pollution is causing carnivorous plants, such as the Venus flytrap, to change their behavior and become vegetarian. An increase in acid rain has caused there...
- Dust deposition linked to glacier melt Sat, 3 Mar 12, 6:00amFrom the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science and the Department of “The Albedo made me do it” comes further proof of what we have been saying before on WUWT about albedo effects...
- Painting Wind Turbines Purple Will Save Wildlife Wed, 3 Nov 10, 5:45amEnvironmentalists have often criticized wind turbines on the grounds that they harm wildlife such as birds and bats who are caught in the blades. On the other hand, home owners have cited turbines as eye-sores that reduce...